Oracle Identity and Access Manager 11g for Administrators

337 Pages·2011·12.02 MB·English

by  Atul Kumar

Oracle Identity and Access
Manager 11g for Administrators
Administer Oracle Identity and Access Management:
Installation, configuration, and day-to-day tasks
Atul Kumar
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Oracle Identity and Access Manager 11g
for Administrators
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Credits
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Atul Kumar Zainab Bagasrawala
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Peter Stomenhoff
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About the Author
Atul Kumar is an Oracle ACE and co-founder of Focusthread. Within the
partnership, he works as a Consultant/Technical Architect. He has more than 11
years of experience working on Oracle Database, Oracle Applications DBA, and
Fusion Middleware including Oracle Identity and Access Management. He is
the technical architect, designing and implementing complex systems with high
availability and disaster recovery. Atul Kumar also maintains a famous website
http://onlineAppsDBA.com dedicated to Oracle Apps DBAs covering a vast range
of Oracle products including Oracle E-Business Suite, OID, OVD, OAM, OIM, SSO,
WebLogic, SOA, WebCenter, UCM, OHS, and Fusion applications.
He is the author of another book, Oracle EBS R12 integration with OID and OAM for
SSO, a step-by-step guide to installing and integrating OID/OAM with E-Business
Suite R12.
He prefers to spend his free time with his lovely daughter and family. He holds a
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rajasthan and
a Post Graduate Diploma from IIIT, India.
I would like to thank the Focusthread team and Anil Passi for
providing servers and for their help with installation and testing
setup. I would like to thank the PacktPub team. The Acquisition
Editor, Rukshana; Project Coordinator Zainab; and Technical Editors,
Jenecia and Joyslita for their invaluable advice and guidance.

Brad Tumy, Peter Stomenhoff, Jom John, Grant Allen, and Neha
Mittal did a great job as technical reviewers; reading, commenting,
and improving the book.

I would also like to thank my colleagues Ryan Davies and Neha
Mittal for the technical discussions and their input in the book.
About the Reviewers
Brad Tumy is a senior Identity and Access Management architect for Tumy
Technology, Inc., a company that Brad founded in 2008. Brad has over 16 years of
Information Technology experience supporting the United States federal government
and a variety of commercial customers. Brad specializes in designing and
implementing solutions for Federation, Single Sign-On (SSO), strong authentication,
and directory services. Prior to starting his own company, Brad worked for Oracle's
National Security Group where he supported several agencies within the intelligence
community and within the Department of Defense. Brad is a regular contributor to
the Identity and Access community through his blog (http://blog.tumy-tech.
com) and on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/brad_tumy). Brad and his wife
Kara live in Frederick, Maryland and have two children, Maggie and Ethan.

Grant Allen has worked in the Information Technology field for nearly 20 years,
specializing in relational database management systems from a variety of vendors.
For the past decade, he has worked in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe as a
principal database consultant and enterprise architect for several organizations, and
he now works in the database field for Google. Grant is the author of Beginning DB2,
and lead author of Oracle SQL Recipes and The Definitive Guide to SQLite.

Jom John is the Oracle Practice Lead for IDMWorks (www.idmworks.com).
IDMWorks helps clients solve complex business issues with custom solutions, more
efficient processes, and deep industry knowledge. Their consultants gather, analyze,
assess, and use information from across the enterprise to create value in all aspects
of their customer's organization. Jom has worked in the Information Technology
and Security profession with experience in architecting and deploying Access and
Identity Management solutions, LDAP Directories, Single/Reduced Sign-On (SSO),
RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), as well as custom-built security and technology
frameworks.
Peter Stomenhoff has more than 17 years of experience in architecting and
building enterprise-scale systems for numerous global organizations and various
levels of governments in both the U.S. and Europe. He first got involved with
what we now call Oracle Identity Management (IdM) products, many years prior
to the start of Oracle's historical acquisition binge in the IdM field as a part of
PricewaterhouseCoopers SIS.com group as well as a consultant for other leading
IdM SIs. After Oracle became actively involved in the field, Peter joined Oracle
and helped establish the new, at the time, Protected Enterprise group within
Oracle Consulting. Currently Peter is the IdM Practice Lead at Mythics Consulting,
one of the most respected Oracle Platinum Partners, where he specializes in all
things including Identity Management, GRC, Privacy, Security, and Oracle Fusion
Middleware in general.
As Peter co-chairs the original Oracle IdM Partner Council, he would like
to reach out to all the current or future Oracle IdM customers and partners at
[email protected] or/and at LinkedIN.com. Also, if there are any Oracle
Identity Management (IdM), Security/GRC, or Oracle Fusion Middleware-related
questions or anything else that he could be of help with, please feel free to contact
him and he will do his best to answer your questions or/and he will reach out to
the right people within Oracle IdM or the extensive eco-system outside of Oracle.
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This book is dedicated to my wife Khushi, for her unconditional love and support and to my
beautiful daughter Kashish for keeping mummy occupied and me entertained.